Graduates

The Public Service Center can support graduate students in finding ways to get involved in the community through volunteering or internships. We can also connect you to resources for thinking about the best ways to incorporate community-based work into your teaching and scholarship.

In May 2016, Cindy Dinh and Paul Monge received the Chancellor’s Award for Public Service in the Graduate Student category. As students at the UC Berkeley School of Law, they have been applying their training to establish a program that will enable students to automatically register to vote when they enroll at a UC, CSU, or community college. By removing barriers to voter registration, Paul and Cindy hope to encourage greater voter turnout and increase civic participation among young people in California. As Cindy noted, “We want to build a democracy that’s really inclusive of voices of young people.”

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We love to profile alumni, student, and partner stories through our newsletters and social media. Your stories go a long way toward inspiring current students, and show the world what the Public Service Center community has accomplished. Please take a moment to share your story.

Here are some places to start.

Volunteering and Internships

Look for opportunities through VolunteerMatch, a searchable database for internships and volunteer opportunities.

Community-Based Teaching and Scholarship

There are many ways for graduate students to get involved in community-based teaching and scholarship.

Partner with the American Cultures Engaged Scholarship (ACES) program. ACES — a partnership of the Public Service Center and the American Cultures Center — offers graduate students and undergraduate students the opportunity to support the development and implementation of a community-engaged course. Applications and information will be available on the American Cultures ACES webpage when the program is recruiting.

Apply for the Chancellor's Awards for Public Service. Each year, the Chancellor honors the work of faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, staff, and community partnerships that demonstrate outstanding contributions to the public good. Nominations open in February each year; recipients are selected in March and honored at a public reception at the end of spring semester.

Resources

Explore a variety of resources about how you can make a difference through your research and teaching, including engaged scholarship and community-partner toolkits.